Director PPF Samina Ishaque in her opening remarks explained the goals of the programme.

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Though Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, a critic of the deal, says that would happen anyway.

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Fazal Qureshi, and Samina Ishaque alternated in delivering lecturers while Ehsan Ahmed Sehar also joined in when needed.

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Samina Ahmed, South Asia director for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, said consensus on a caretaker government was an important issue.

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An independent judiciary is welcome, says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, yet it is striking how hard the judges fought to reject any elected oversight.

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Samina Ahmed, of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, thinks the army may well force him to resign, leading to the establishment of an interim government and then elections.

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The PPF media instructors team consisting of Fazal Qureshi, Chief Editor Pakistan Press International (PPI), and Samina Ishaque, Director, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) flew to the nearby city of Bahawalpur from Karachi.

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Ms. SAMINA AHMED (Director, International Crisis Group): To assume that money saved from the national budget, if it wasn't going to be spent on arms, was going to be spent on education isn't necessarily correct.

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